FREDDIE HUBBARD AUDIOPHILE 45 RPM SPEED LIMITED EDITION 180 GRAM PRESSING INDIVIDUALLY COLLECTORS LOW NUMBERED 109 

- THIS IS OUR ONE AND ONLY COPY FOREVER

Here's How it was done FOR THE 12 INCH 45 SPEED VINYL:

Using only the original analog master tapes and cut all of the titles at AcousTech Mastering, which features a pure Class-A disc-cutting system. AcousTech is located at Record Technology, Inc. the plant where the vinyl was pressed. It is a tremendous sonic advantage to have the pressing plant plating department & mastering room in the same facility as Steve & Kevin could cut a lacquer and plated immediately. This prevents the degradation of the grooves in a lacquer which is very fragile to quick deterioration.

And of course cutting at 45 speed is the audiophile choice for the highes quality. A 45-RPM record is sonically superior to a 33 1/3 variety because of a 35 percent reduction of groove curvature compared to a 33 1/3 cut.. It means that while you can't fit as much music into a 45, the undukations of the groove that your cartridge has to track are stretched over a longer distance. For these reissues, the music was displaced onto four sides, meaning each side contains about 10 minutes of music.

This is the ultimate reissues. The only way you'll get closer to this classic music is to listen to the master tapes or have been in the studio with the artist originally during the actual session.

Freddie Hubbard The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard 180g 45rpm 2LP LOW NUMBERED 109

Limited Edition 180 Gram, 45rpm 2LP Set! Only the 1st 1,500 Copies are Numbered!

Cut by Kevin Gray at 45 RPM and packaged in extra-thick cardboard stock gatefold jackets!

By the time this album was recorded in 1962, the 24-year old Freddie Hubbard had worked with Slide Hampton, Max Roach and J.J. Johnson prior to his association with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Miles Davis listed Hubbard among the top jazz trumpeters of the day. This was Freddie Hubbard's debut on the Impulse label, and to showcase his trumpet artistry he organized a group of top instrumentalists to give him full support. The group included John Gilmore, tenor saxophone; Curtis Fuller, trombone; Art Davis, bass; Tommy Flanagan, piano and Louis Hayes, drums. Freddie Hubbard wrote three of the five compositions.

Musicians:
Freddie Hubbard, trumpet
John Gilmore, tenor saxophone
Curtis Fuller, trombone
Art Davis, bass
Tommy Flanagan, piano
Louis Hayes, drums

Features:
• Limited Edition
• Only the 1st 1,500 Copies are Numbered!
• 45rpm
• 180g Vinyl
• Double LP
• Gatefold jacket
• Pressed by RTI

Selections:
1. Caravan
2. Bob's Place
3. Happy Times
4. Summertime
5. The 7th Day

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You should never pass up the opportunity to upgrade your collection. They're each very limited in their pressings and disappear with extraordinary quickness from the vinyl market. This causes prices to skyrocket because once they are gone, they are gone forever! Don't second-guess yourself with this chance to upgrade your collection  because before you know it, the opportunity will have passed forever.  

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